Things I’ll miss...

•  Working on lesson plans until 3 a.m. (because if you want colored copies of something where there are no color copiers you have to do them all by hand...for all 60 kids)
• My monkey children (by the end of the school day I am no longer a teacher  but a jungle gym)
• Piki pikis (hailing them, riding them side saddle, bailing off them when the driver sucks)
• Forgetting how to speak because your brain doesn’t know if it wants to speak Swahili or English
• Random animals hanging out in the middle of the street (cows, goats...goat/cow hybrids)
• Monday Market
• Ice Cream Wednesdays

• My Bagamoyo family (Ana, Tuma, Saidi, Pili, Roger, Diedus, Saidi, Elias, and all the wtotos)
• Weekend trips
• Being called Maaayyygooooonnnnn
• Acceptable upper lip sweat
• Living next to the ocean
• The stars
• Being barefoot 90% of the day
• Bagamoyo time (being a half hour or even an hour late is not only acceptable but expected)
• Chipati, red sauce, vegetable tempura, crepes basically anything Robert and Chikoo cook
• Heather never remembering to refill the toilet paper... NOT
• Lauren’s sarcasm (because it only feeds mine)
• Tuma’s laugh
• Being called madam, and the happiness on the wtotos faces whenever I give them a high five
• Being an African dada
• Almost getting run over on a daily basis while walking to work
• Barraka’s jealously issues (my boss’s 3 year old who gets very upset when you don’t pay enough attention to him)
• When the wtotos steal my sunglasses and always put them on upside down
• Living in the moment (there is never a need to multitask...people even think it’s strange when you walk too fast here because no one is ever in a hurry they just live to enjoy the moment)
• Being a resident of Tanzania
• Jumping pictures
• The sunsets
• Everything...............